Free? Public Records Or A Fee Site in Disguise?

One of my very favorite *free* sites for accessing public records online used to be searchsystems.net until, that is, they put a delay on retrieving the URL for their directory items. Now, one must wait 20 seconds per link to get to the *free* content as this company is advertising their subscription service. It is an annoying amount of time to say the least and makes one wonder why this once "world class" directory has gone over to the dark side.

I exchanged some emails with the Searchsystems CEO over this issue. He was polite and said that they have lots of broken links daily and it takes two people to keep the links from rotting. Plus, other sites ripped off his content and made pay sites that passed through to his free link content. It's all about the bottom line, evidently.

I'm off to search for a replacement public records site that really is *free* and not a complete time waster.